My Father, the Nutcase

My Father, the Nutcase
Author: Judith Caseley
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1992
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

When her father becomes clinically depressed, fifteen-year-old Zoe worries that his illness will engulf the entire family.

His Father's Eyes

His Father's Eyes
Author: David B. Coe
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1625794029

Book #2 in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, a new contemporary fantasy series from fantasy all-star David B. Coe. A hardboiled, magic-using private detective battles dark sorcerers in Phoenix, Arizona. Justis Fearsson is a weremyste. He wields potent magic, but every month, on the full moon, he loses his mind. Hes also a private detective, who cant afford to take time off from his latest investigation while his sanity goes AWOL. A legion of dark sorcerers has descended on Phoenix, wreaking havoc in the blistering desert heat. With the next moon phasing approaching, Jay has to figure out what connects a billionaire financier and a vicious drug kingpin to an attempted terrorist attack, a spate of ritual killings, and the murder of a powerful runemyste. And he has to do it fast. Because these same dark sorcerers have nearly killed the woman he loves and have used their spells to torment Jays father. Now they have Jay in their crosshairs, and with his death they intend to extend their power over the entire magicking world. But Jay has other plans, and no intention of turning his city, or those he loves, over to the enemy. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). The Case Files of Justis Fearsson Spell Blind His Father's Eyes About Spell Blind: "Justis is on the streets and has never been so cool; I can't wait for his next adventure!" --Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times Best Seller "Coe brings deep knowledge of both fantasy and mystery to his well-structured first urban fantasy novel. . . . He tells an entertaining story with a good mystery at its core." Publishers Weekly About David B. Coe's Rules of Ascension: "War and politics, love and magic, all drawn in detail against a vividly imagined feudal background. A complex and excellent book." ¾David Drake, author of Lord of the Isles ". . . epic . . . a world of rival nobles, sinister mages, and a few men and women of courage and conviction. Well-developed characters and an intriguing political background . . ."¾Library Journal About David B. Coe's Shapers of Darkness: ". . . imaginative world building, superior characterization, and sound prose . . ."¾Booklist

The Nut Case

The Nut Case
Author: Harry DeMaio
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787056252

Does Octavius have a doppelgänger? Could be! One who's insisting that he is the Great Bear. The Octavians insist that he is a nut intent on creating chaos or worse. The plot gets much thicker. It seems the real target of this complex charade isn't Octavius at all. It’s Howard, the porcupine genius who’s the world’s leading expert on alternate universe travel. And the Admiral, a mad Zebra on an alternate planet, wants to capture Howard to enable his dastardly strategies for cosmic conquest. Otto the Magnificent is commissioned by Octavius to scuttle the Admiral’s plans. Little does the Zebra know how potent the little lutrine is. Does romance rear its head? Well, maybe. Enter Priscilla, a very clever porcupine femme fatale who gets Howard’s spiky attention. Life gets curiouser and curiouser.

My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things

My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things
Author: Joseph Skibell
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1616205458

Often comic, sometimes tender, profoundly truthful, the pleasure in these nonfiction pieces by award-winning novelist Joseph Skibell is discovering along with the author that catastrophes, fantasies, and delusions are what give sweetness and shape to our lives. “As a writer,” Skibell has said, “I feel about life the way the people of the Plains felt about the buffalo: I want to use every part of it.” In My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things, his first nonfiction work, he mines the events of his own life to create a captivating collection of personal essays, a suite of intimate stories that blurs the line between funny and poignant, and between the imaginary and the real. Often improbable, these stories are 100 percent true. Skibell misremembers the guitar his father promised him; together, he and a telemarketer dream of a better world; a major work of Holocaust art turns out to have been painted by his cousin. Woven together, the stories paint a complex portrait of a man and his family: a businessman father and an artistic son and the difficult love between them; complicated uncles, cousins, and sisters; a haunted house; and—of course—an imaginary guitar. Skibell’s novels have been praised as “startlingly original” (the Washington Post), “magical” (the New Yorker), and the work of “a gifted, committed imagination” (the New York Times). With his distinctive style, he has been referred to as “the bastard love child of Mark Twain, I. B. Singer, and Wes Anderson, left on a doorstep in Lubbock, Texas.”

The Nut Case

The Nut Case
Author: S. H. Miah
Publisher: Muslim Fiction Project
Total Pages: 25
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Meet Agony Aunt Ameerah, a blogger with the knack for receiving all sorts of funny mail from her readers. Whilst struggling for a blog idea to write, Ameerah's cat, Coco, drags in new mail. And this problem is a juicy one. Someone's been stealing the nuts stash from one of her readers. And it's up to Ameerah to find a solution. She must solve: The Nut Case. A short story in the Agony Aunt Ameerah series. Fun, quick reads that'll certainly get you laughing out loud.

The New Yorker Stories

The New Yorker Stories
Author: Ann Beattie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 143916875X

Here is the complete collection of the author's stories previously published in "The New Yorker" between the years 1974-2006.

Marnie's Journals

Marnie's Journals
Author: Lila Karoub
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1646288149

Marnie's Journals is a true story about a woman who participates in two decades of crime-related activities that went too far with her latest crime. She was arrested and charged with grand larceny, facing twenty-one years in prison. She was also facing other felony charges. She would begin to have headaches and confusion, trying to keep up with the hearts of three men. The death of one them would change Marnie's course and stop her dead in her tracks to consider her actions. After this death, her life takes a dangerous turn into a life of crime for two decades. Marnie's Journals is a story about multiple men, manipulation, deceit, dishonor, and mayhem.

Walking Through Walls

Walking Through Walls
Author: Philip Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2008-09-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416542949

Smith's hilarious and profound memoir about coming-of-age in 1960s Miami with a decorator father who discovers he has the power to talk to the dead and heal the sick.

Stories My Father Told Me

Stories My Father Told Me
Author: Jeffrey Lyons
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0789211025

An incredible collection of celebrity stories and photographs from 1934 to the present, from the archives of "The Lyons Den" by eminent New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons, compiled by his son, movie critic Jeffrey Lyons. This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor’s, “21,” and Sardi’s, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were the nightly gathering spots for great figures of that era: movie and Broadway stars, baseball players, champion boxers, comedians, diplomats, British royalty, prize-winning authors, and famous painters. From Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill, from Ethel Barrymore to Sophia Loren, from George Burns to Ernest Hemingway, from Joe DiMaggio to the Duke of Windsor: Leonard Lyons knew them all. For forty glorious years, from 1934 to 1974, he made the daily rounds of Gotham nightspots, collecting the exclusive scoops and revelations that were at the core of his famous newspaper column, “The Lyons Den.” In this entertaining volume Jeffrey Lyons has assembled a considerable compilation of anecdotes from his father’s best columns, and has also contributed a selection of his own interviews with stars of today, including Penélope Cruz and George Clooney, among others. Organized chronologically by decade and subdivided by celebrity, Stories My Father Told Me offers fascinating, amusing stories that are illustrated by approximately seventy photographs. He so captured the tenor of those exciting times that the great Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg said: “Imagine how much richer American history would have been had there been a Leonard Lyons in Lincoln’s time.”